12/18/2013 – Tricking the brain with transformative virtual reality

Want to have a just-like-real-life fantasy experience without leaving your living room? Virtual reality technology is already employed by certain industries, but economics correspondent Paul Solman considers the variety of applications it could have in the consumer market in the future.

In this interview, Solman visits Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab founded by Center on Longevity faculty affiliate Jeremy Bailenson.

Read the full article at PBS NewsHour.